Watching “The Daily Show” tonight with guest Senator John McCain, Jon Stewart commented that the US has not won the war. McCain’s response was “well then tell me who won the war? Do you think it was Al-Qaeda?” His point being that, look, they haven’t bombed us again. But, in my thinking about the situation, Al-Qaeda have indeed won their war. In fact they have won it rather completely. They achieved their primary goal of completey changing the way the citizens of the US live, and they have achieved their secondary goal of miring our country in a conflict away from our soil. But back to their first goal. No on can deny life has changed drastically for the worse since the millennium. Our own government has used fear instilled in the lower intelligence masses to get us to give up our freedoms in exchange for a little secure feeling. Warentless wiretapping, broad powers for military and executive branch, secretive executive orders, and dozens of other evils hidden inside the so called “Patriot act” have completely pervaded our society. It’s heartbreaking, I don’t even have a punchline for this sad end to a 231 year stretch.
Tag: war
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Terror 1, Freedom 0
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This is like the gun I used in ‘Nam!
President Bush recently explained to a convention of veterans that America’s experience in Vietnam should be a lesson to those who want U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq. he drew several carefully prepared examples. ‘Remember how difficult it was for Jon Voight to reintegrate into society?’ This drew several curious faces from the crowd until a presidential aide displayed a photo from ‘Coming Home’ on the projector. Ah yes, realization sank in. It was hard. What about Rambo? That whole incedent caused much needless loss of life. Despite the fictitious nature of these examples, many thought it should have been apparent to the President that the best way to prevent a physcotic super marine from returning home tweaked out from the war and killing civilians with a .50 cal machine gun and sharpened sticks would have been to limit the scope and length of the war in the first place, and more importantly provide proper military care after the fact. But the President had a better idea. ‘Keep them there indefinitely.’ -
ENEMIES OF THE STATUS QUO
Pakistan’s Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan has made a public apology for selling nuclear secrets to such enemies of the West as Iran, Libya, and North Korea. The Iranian PLX-DV223 ICBM platform (shown in picture) is the first complete build of Pakistani sold nuclear secrets to rear its ugly head (literally). Cpt. Abdul Shamatmahan (far right) has been calibrating firing sequences on these new WMDs for nearly two months now, and has increased the accurate firing distance to nearly 42.67 meters (140ft). Brigadier General Ronald McAlibaster, serving with the 82nd Airborne US Army division in Iraq, fears the mental impact this will have on his soldiers. ‘Every mule is now shot on site, for fear of letting the single radioactive one slip by and start Armageddon.’